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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son's U16 ECNL team has three kids that go to the same high school.  The other 15 go to 15 completely different schools.  He's been on teams that had boys in three different grades on the same team.  The kids were also from 5 or 6 different areas.  There really isn't much reason for this school year thing anymore, because the kids gravitate to a certain club for whatever reason they have.[/quote]

Sorry to say there is a reason.  It’s not about going to the same school. That does not matter.  The issue comes in both 8 and 11-12 in a way it does not with calendar year. The U18-19 is a disaster for the 20-30% of juniors on what is a team of seniors preparing to go to college.  (which used to be only a junior team or only a senior team). They want to play high level for their junior year and get seen/recruited the spring of their junior year but the rest of their team checks out come spring as they are graduating. Same happens in 8th for kids who want to play but their season stops so all the freshman can play high school. This does not matter for MLs because they don’t allow high school ball. In school year everybody is going to college at the same time u less their parents redshirted them (a choice some make). It’s a mess for a large chunk of kids which is why ECNL has tried so many workarounds in their policies (ie- 8th graders can play down for half a year (dumb as they don’t even know the teams they are then thrusted into mid year and then those teams real players get benched because roster bloats with 20-30% more kids for 6 months. Its a mess). I wish they would revert and stop the stupidness of having a program geared toward college recruiting that makes that process messy at best. [/quote]

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